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A performer and choreographer based in Tokyo. From 1991 to 1995 he, together with Atsuko Yoshifuku, ran the independent dance group, ATA Dance. In 1996, he joined the Japanese multimedia performance company Dumb Type and participated in OR, memorandum and Voyage. He has also been active in independent solo projects since 2000. His recent works, characterized by collaborations with sound/visual artists who uniquely combine and synchronize the elements of light and sound, include Di Que No Ves (Say You Don't See) (2003), D.D.D. -How many more times will my heart beat before it stops?- (2004), Tablemind (2006) and Good Luck (2008). Currently, Kawaguchi is also involved in other projects including true - a new light, sound and dance performance, a collaboration with Japanese contemporary dancer/choreographer Tsuyoshi Shirai and Dumb Type's lighting designer Taklayuki Fujimoto using the new LED lighting technology. Kawaguchi is also working on his solo, site-specific performance series A Perfect Life which began last year in Chicago in May 2008, and continued in Tokyo on the Sumida River, in August 2008. Next Perfect Life will be in August 2009, in Nippori, Tokyo.

Apart from the performing arts, Takao Kawaguchi was the director of the Tokyo International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival from 1995 to 99. in 2003, he translated into Japanese UK's openly gay experimental filmmaker Derek Jarman's essay on colors Chroma which he wrote just before he died of AIDS in 1994.